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This was a piece written by me back in December, 2018 which never saw the light of the day until today. I shall follow this up with a part-2 covering the events of the trade war which occurred in 2019. “It is the rise of Athens and the fear it instilled in Sparta, that made war inevitable”. These are the famous words of a Greece historian – Thucydides and it seems very apt in the current trade war between the two most powerful economies of the world – USA & China. Till January 2018, everything was going pretty fine for both parties, the Chinese grew due to exports, Americans could buy things cheap. But then one fine day, Mr. Trump decided to cite the reasons of a threat to National security, Trade deficit, injury to US Industries and lay tariffs on Chinese products. In the course of the trade war Mr. Trump justified his stance by quoting IPR Theft and Unfair trade practices of the Chinese i.e. by not allowing foreign companies to enter the market unless they partner with Chin...

Imagine the day, when our Jawans will not die and their children will not cry… Imagine the future, when our farmers will be able to increase their income and not die in poverty… Imagine the day, when the nation’s poor will not be illiterate but will get access to quality education… Imagine the glorious future, wherein residents of rural areas will not die only because of one reason - a dearth of health-care centers… The three dots at the end are for your imagination for an amazing future, but you will probably be like, Lakshmy… Is this possible? Yes! Don’t just imagine. Embrace the reality. Soon the day will come when our Jawans will not die, and their children will not cry, as artificially intelligent robots will man the border and this is not science fiction! US Defense Agency - DARPA with Boston Dynamics, has created spy robots and drones, which can be sent before soldiers to get information. There is also a state-of-art rough terrain robot called the “BigDog”, which ca...